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Music in the Middle
The final section of 1 Chronicles is neatly framed by speeches by David. Chapter 22 contains David’s…
Anticlericalism and Reformation
Anticlerical agitation was more consequence than cause of the English Reformation, argues David Loades in his contribution…
David’s Pharaoh Moment
1 Chronicles doesn’t say anything about David’s sin against Bath-Sheba and Uriah (cf. 2 Samuel 11–12). Bath-Sheba…
David’s Speech to Solomon
1 Chronicles 22:6–16 records David’s hortatory speech to Solomon about building the temple. It is divided into…
Luther’s Continuing Relevance
Readers of First Things may be interested in my review of a recent Morgan Library exhibition commemorating…
The Essential Mary
Since the Son is incarnate, argues Aaron Riches in his Ecce Homo, “we must speak of unum…
First Things: Food for the Soul
Every so often, our readers send us pictures of their small but discerning offspring chewing their way…
David’s Restraint, Yahweh’s Trap
When King Nahash of Ammon dies, David sends his condolences to his son Hanun (1 Chronicles 19).…
Strangers on a Train
The death of Nat Hentoff a couple of weeks ago was movingly memorialized for First Things by…
The Impossibility of Adulthood
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter (Nation of Rebels) characterize the 1999 film, American Beauty, as “a completely…
Frames and Frame-Breaks
Linguist and philosopher George Lakoff, co-author of Metaphors We Live By and many other works, wants to…
Battling Shakespeare
In an essay on “America’s Shakespeare” at National Interest, Algis Valiunas traces the shifting political of Shakespeare…
Origins of Atheism
Nick Spencer (Atheists: The Origin of the Species) doesn’t believe the standard creation myths about atheism. According…
Early Transhumanism
In his Eclipse of Man, Charles Rubin traces a genealogy of transhumanism. Among the sources is a…
Sherlock’s Soap-Operization
Nicholas Barber gets Sherlock just right. Benedict Cumberbatch has the intensity to kill the title role, and,…
